Are There Any Insurence Plans That Cover Ffs?

[Guest GPTV]

Hey guys, do any of ya'll know of an insurance plan or medical plan that will help me start up the process of going to therapy, psychiatry, and finally going through with FFS (SRS is not a concern to me at this time - I'm head first, so to speak!). I've been through two very terrible rhinoplasties already (one that was a major reduction against my wishes, another that required very large reconstructive grafting) and I'm looking to get this revised, and to make other changes to my face as well. I feel like insurence should help out with my problems because my emotional toll is so severe (panic attacks, fainting, extremely high heart rate, extreme (and I mean extreme) depression, anxiety, and complete alienation from the world. I need therapy, I need psychiatry, and most of all, I need surgery.

But all that is like a $30,000 lump sum! Where is the insurence help for people like us? Where are the loans, finance plans, ect ect? I truly need advice with this! I'm only 20 and virtually homeless, I have no clue where to start this process all over again.

[Guest CariadsCarrot]

Hey GPTV, I really don't know any answers for you coz I'm in the UK and things are done differently over here (NHS or pay for it yourself privately are the 2 basic options). I'm sorry things are having such a tough emotional toll on you right now. It sounds horrible that one of the surgeries you had was done against your will! How did that happen? It sounds like the other one wasn't very successful either if you're having to look at having it revised. I'm sorry. That must make all this even more difficult for you.

The site is often quiet at this time of day but I'm sure someone on your side of the world will come along and be able to answer your question soon.#

Gabe

[Guest GPTV]

Well, I opted to have surgery own my own accord (my birth nose was so extreme that I did not even fit in anywhere in my male life and I recieved constant bullying in school to the point my school counselors and psychiatrists at the time told me that surgery was a needed option for me), but the surgeon I went with botched the proceedure and made me look like my nose melted off my face. It was only supposed to be a realistic, conservatve surgery (I only wanted my nose to look slightly thinner and less bulbous and I explained this very well to the surgeon), but he amputated almost my entire nose instead (I do not think he was liscenced or qualified, and he also has been sued by other patients). With the revision, I went to a world specialist who specialized in reconstructing noses for teenagers (I'm only 20) and that surgeon usually created amazing results with his revisions, but with mine, he did a very sloppy job and the grafts that my nose required turned out to be extremely bulbous and sickly looking. But none of his other grafting patients looked like that!

However, with this second surgeon, there was a scam uncovered where he would purposely botched his patients in order to earn more money doing "touch ups" on their noses - one patient I met had become the victim of being scammed into doing FOUR nose surgeries under this doctor because he kept making her nose so hideous (she didn't want it smaller and smaller, she wanted it REPAIRED.)

And the other things I'm going through is because I have an androgen oversensitivity, my forhead is the size of Shrek's and my jawline is getting extremely large and rounded (I do not even have the money to get on androgen blockers.) It's very painful and I feel like my face is dying by the minute. From the last surgery, my nasal bone is also extremely low and deteriorated back into my face, and my nasal tip, again like Shrek's, is very rounded and masculine. My nose was nothing like this before surgeries =[.

My current face is on the right, the "what I want" is on the left (photo morph):

http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac77/buttercupblessing/Untitlebdbdbsdsd.png

http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac77/buttercupblessing/Untitled2224hh4.png

This is what I feel like I look like as of right now, the nasal and forehead features are just alike =[!:

http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2004/6.28.04/Graphics/Pix_ThisWeek/shrek3.jpg

[Guest Hayley]

Wow GPTV, it sounds like you've had pretty bad luck with surgeons!! I'm sorry things turned out so badly for you.

[Guest CariadsCarrot]

I'm sorry you've been through all that. It sounds really traumatic. I honestly don't see what you see in that picture and wouldn't look at you and think there's anything wrong with your face but I know how it feels to detest what you see every time you look at yourself and to constantly feel that people are seeing something hideous when they look at you, especially when you've been bullied so terribly for it in the past.

I hope that some day you can look in the mirror and see someone you are confident and happy being.

Gabe

[Guest doodle]

there are quite a few. I recently got a t-shave and a fat transfer to my hips just last monday. I hope to have FFS in sept through my GHI emblem health insurance. everything went well.

Kelly

[Guest GPTV]

Well, the thing is, I don't think that people look at me and think "hideous" (though some do, every time I go to the mall, a different group of random boys well yell "Look at the guy with the ogre face!"), the biggest issue is my facial character for my female life. I am a transgender and I simply do not participate in that side of me because I look so extremely masculine. According to both world-wide studies of psychology and facial aesthetics, a prominent forehead and rounded "husky man" nasal appearance are considered to be traits that define masculinity and middle-aged looks - sadly these traits tend to also define "ugliness" in the newer generations of people that universally appreciate adrogynous and younger appearances most of all (my age group.)

So when I participate in my male role, people at least treat me more normally, but when I participate in my female role, even my closest friends will pull me to the side and say "I'm really sorry to tell you, but you really need to dress like a man again, you just look awful trying to be a girl." Yet these people do not have biases against transgenders in general because these same friends know other transgenders as well who DO look like females more naturally, and these people say nothing bad to them. I know that none of this is in my head and despite how I love myself in on the inside, I believe 100% in surgery and cosmetic changes (just look at how widely braces are accepted just because it's not labeled as "plastic surgery" even though it truly is cosmetic surgery) and I feel that a revision surgery, along with forehead contouring and possibly other FFS changes, will be a miracle to me.

I just hate it when people say that I'll "grow out of it" or "don't need it" because I know that for my personality and place in life, I just was not born with the looks that represent my soul. I knew that before I was ever even made fun of for anything.